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File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12...

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He's been working through a few proposals like addressing NACK usage for how Wayland protocols can be rejected and in ending out the week he has drafted some additional workflow improvements...

The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel...

LoongArch Adds ACPI BGRT Support & Other Improvements For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel...

I’ve Been Using These 8 Core Linux Commands Wrong for Years  How-To Geek

KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release...

Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...

Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave  Phoronix

New Chrome Security Warning For 3 Billion Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Users  Forbes

Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux  GamingOnLinux

It's been just one week since the release of ROCm 6.2.1 while today ROCm 6.2.2 was released...

PSA: Critical 9.9 vulnerability discovered in the CUPS package (Linux)  GBAtemp.net

PSA: Critical 9.9 vulnerability discovered in the CUPS package (Linux)  GBAtemp.net

Remote code execution exploit for CUPS printing service puts Linux desktops at risk  CSO Online

Linux Distros Patching Printer Hijacking Flaw  BankInfoSecurity.com

The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...

Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops  Phoronix

VirtualBox 7.1.2 Released with 3D Acceleration Support for VMs Running on ARM  9to5Linux

AMD today announced "AMD-135M" as their first small language model they are publicly releasing. AMD-135M is open-source with the training code, dataset, and weights all being open-source to help in the development of other SLMs and LLMs...